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John Alexander Pysklywec is in his first year of the Master of Arts program at the University of British Columbia, and graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Arts in (Human) Geography. His research interests primarily involve interactions within and between state and non-state actor(s) in a North American context. His three main areas of focus are: race, gender, and identity politics; nationalism, national imaginaries, colonialism; and peace, oppression, and contestation. He specifically is researching the social/cultural impacts of increasing militarization and (fear of) violence along the US/Mexico border using an embodied queer, feminist, anti-colonial, and anti-racism lens.